When planning large scale computing projects (on this blog are meteorology, LiDAR, GIS, Ansys 3D modeling, etc…) the choice you will be presented with is do you host your own servers or outsource them to a cloud solution (someone else’s datacenter/servers). At first glance cloud computing rates look pretty cheap, but they are only cost effective on a short term-demand basis. Any long term use becomes more expensive than hosting your own processing center. Here is good reference article talking about Return on Investment(ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with High Performance Computing (HPC) and HPC as a Service (cloud)

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About Chuck Schoeneberger

Former forecaster at Meridian Environmental Technologies Inc (now a Interis Company), with a background in GIS and LiDAR, with other stints at GeoSpatial Services of Winona, MN and Aerometric (Now Quantum Spatial) of Sheboygan, WI. He is a weather technologist for public storm safety from a local to international level. LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=25048141&trk=tab_pro
His views are his own and not of his employer.